Find The Magic atStoryBook Forest at Idlewild Park

Bring your children to StoryBook Forest at Idlewild Park and experience the land of storybook imagination. Here you will literally walk through one classic children's story after another.

Watch your children's face light up when you visit The Little Old Lady That Lives In A Shoe, you know, she had so many children, she didn't know what to do. You can usually find her sitting in her rocking chair knitting something for her children. Children love sitting at her feet as she tells them stories.

Live characters will welcome and entertain your children with the magic of walking through a wonderland of classic storybook villages. Visit the home of Peter Peter Pumkin Eater, The Three Little Pigs, Humpty Dumpty and The Little Crooked Man. It's so much fun to travel through StoryBook Forest and become an interactive part of all these classic stories that have brought entertainment to many generations.

Idlewild Park, also known as the most beautiful theme park in the United States, is a family friendly Pennsylvania Amusement Park that will charm you with unique attractions that a family can afford to visit, eat and buy souvenirs without maxing your budget or credit card.

StoryBook Forest Village

You'll find yourself reciting nursery rhymes and humming along to the many classic songs as you hold your child's hand and walk through the StoryBook Forest Village and browsing through houses, pumpkins, shoes and keyholes. When you visit a place like Storybook Forest you're only limited by your imagination.

The dreams of the creators of this magical storybook village, C.C. McDonald and Arthur Jennings became reality in 1956. McDonald was once the owner of Idlewild Park and Jennings was a performing clown. Together they built a beautiful StoryBook Forest for generations of children's classic book lovers to enjoy their favorite stories while interacting with their favorite characters.

Here is a list of what awaits the visitors to StoryBook Forest once inside: